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Should A Formal Test Plan For Dynamic String Testing Include All Combinations?Very detailed answer, thanks -- I had no idea that "allpairs" existed! In one of my real-life examples, I was able to take a truth table of 16 conditions down to 10 by eliminating impossible situations (sometimes the predicates are made up of conjunctions or other boolean logic that would lead to a contradiction), then down to 6 by using the allpairs tool to eliminate a few combinations. No, they aren't life-critical, but will lead to user confusion or support calls if it's wrong.

How is the QA org chart across organisations?You're unlikely to get many good answers without reading a management textbook. Actual management / organizational procedures that are in place at companies are often considered to be sensitive proprietary information and should not be disclosed. After all, if a company financially benefits from having a good organizational practice, why should they share it with you for free?

Analysis of test steps in HP ALM...enable it and that is the reason why they don't want to turn it on. OR they think it's a security risk to allow regular ALM users to directly query the SQL, but I don't see how read-only access can be destructive, so... they have no problem enabling it here, at least. The admin's reaction was "Oh, you actually NEED that?! Nice, ok... no problem, it's on now, let me know if it works."

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Analysis of test steps in HP ALMI am not sure about whether this feature requires specific licensing, because I am not an ALM Administrator myself; I am simply a regular user of a very large ALM installation at a large enterprise. However, I have previously been a victim of having the Excel Report option grayed out. I was able to get it resolved by calling my ALM Administrator support team and they had to change permissions in the entire ALM Project. Apparently this setting is controlled at the project level. My guess is, it's either disabled by default and the Admin didn't change the default; or it costs money/licenses to..